I Hated High School Because the Prom Queen Made My Life Miserable — 12 Years After Graduation, She Matched With Me on Tinder and Had No Idea Who I Was

prom queen.
The girl every teacher loved, and every guy wanted.
The girl who had a special talent for finding me in any hallway.

I remembered the day I stopped trying.

Sophomore year, after she made the whole class laugh about my shoes, I went home and opened a textbook instead of crying.
Books did not laugh.
Books got me through college, and college got continue reading …